News from the Past: It's Cold Outside!
>> Monday, March 2, 2009
125 years ago:
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Last night, a youngster stuck his tongue on an iron post at Third and Monroe and it was so cold that it immediately stuck to the metal. His mother, attracted by his moans and groans, was preparing to pour a kettle of hot water over his head to thaw his tongue when a passerby stopped her and freed the tongue by blowing his warm breath on it until the boy and the post were unstuck.
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OHMYGOSH! The poor boy could have been burned!! How horrible would she have felt after that! Thank God for that smart passerby!!
What's more is in this day and time the mother would have been brought up on some sort of charges and her child removed from her home.
The mother's name would be dragged through the mud, her mother would have stood there and trashed her too while the child sits in limbo somewhere being coaxed into sharing more incriminating information about his mother.
All will end up with counseling after being on Oprah and any legal fees will be paid by kleenex who made out like a bandit with all the tissue they provided through the tears.
Fortunate for all involved in the original story-it happened 125 years ago-way before the world and media became as obsessed with train wrecks as it is today.
Keep sharing these stories-love them!
Talk about going from cold to hot. Yikes!
You know, I've seen this kind of thing so often in movies that everytime I pass an iron pole in winter ... the orneriness in me tempts me to try ... :)
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